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Police: Drunk tank escapee falls through ceiling of city jail

“I found a security flaw in your facility,” Michael Lee Kasnick explained as the officers snapped on his leg cuffs.

Moments earlier, according to a police report, guards watched Kasnick crash through the first-floor ceiling of the city jail on Chestnut Street — legs first, then all 140 pounds, five feet, eight inches of him.

The 22-year-old U.S. Army soldier had been arrested on a charge of public intoxication that early morning of Feb. 12. The jail’s holdover cell apparently held him for less than an hour.

His alleged efforts “to get home” earned Kasnick an an attempted escape charge and a trip to the Dallas County lockup, where I hear the ceilings are of an altogether different quality.

Photo: This iconic image from “The Shawshank Redemption” has been altered for illustrative purposes

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